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Last year, on November 15th, 39-year-old Richard Perkins was tragically murdered by Oakland police near 90th and Bancroft. Richard Perkins is the 5th person to be killed by OPD this year. His murder has been extremely difficult for the family and they have put out a call to the community for support.
We will be showing our support for the Perkins family at Eastside Arts Alliance where there will be performances, art, and speakers by the incredible voices of our community. We are asking for a $10 dollar donation at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will go to the Perkins family.
There is an option to donate online if you cannot attend:
https://www.youcaring.com/
Please share with you fam, friends, and loved ones.
PERFORMERS:
AFROFONIX
This event will be updated with more performers, vendors, and artist set to share their magical brilliance in the spirit of community love and solidarity.
organized by members of Anti Police-Terror Project & black.seed
OccupyForum presents…
Information, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!
OccupyForum is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue on all sides of these critically important issues!
Malcolm X: Make it Plain
The early articulation of the global, anti-colonial struggle
Occupy Forum observes the 50th plus Anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with the screening of the film Malcolm X: Make It Plain.
Articulating concepts of race pride and black nationalism Malcolm X was an African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam in the 1950s and ’60s. Dynamic orator and militant minister, and the leader and potential leader of the black power concept, Malcolm X exhorted blacks to cast off the shackles of racism “by any means necessary,” including violence.
Avoiding the life-of-a-saint tone that characterized much of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, this documentary is a careful exploration of Malcolm X’s life and thought. Directed by Orlando Bagwell, (The Great Depression and Eyes on the Prize), the film takes care to place Malcolm X’s political leadership in a context that includes not only the by-now-familiar run through his time spent as the zoot-suited hustler Detroit Red, but also his childhood as the son of Earl Little, a Michigan minister and organizer for the black-nationalist Marcus Garvey Movement. The complexity and contradictions of Malcolm X’s philosophy are discussed and debated by diverse interview subjects, ranging from Malcolm’s brothers to the New York police officer who infiltrated Malcolm’s Nation of Islam chapter in the hope of discrediting him.
After Malcolm X made the Hajj, the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during which he converted to traditional Islam, he placed the American Civil Rights Movement within the context of a global anti-colonial struggle, embracing socialism and pan-Africanism. “The true brotherhood I had seen had influenced me to recognize that anger can blind human vision,” he said. “America is the first country … that can actually have a bloodless revolution.”
Make It Plain is a first- rate piece of journalism, presenting a figure obscured by the historical context, and one who we do well to study in today’s racist emergency.
Q&A and Announcements will follow. Donations to OccupyForum
to cover our costs are encouraged; no one turned away!
Come out and support our comrade Nailah who is currently facing charges after the wave of resistance in solidarity with Ferguson
Please join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity folks in Oakland at lunchtime as we hold banners and signs, speak with passers-by, and share information about the torture in CA prisons.
We are working to END solitary confinement and promote the Agreement to End Hostilities. For the past 6 1/2 months, people in Pelican Bay SHU (solitary) have been jarred awake 40-48 times a day, around the clock. We say, ” Stop the Sleep Deprivation Torture!”
Join us this Tuesday! People will be rallying at Apple stores around the country to fight the government’s attempt to put a backdoor into our iPhones, which would make all of us less safe.
See the list of national events here
LOGISTICS:
1. Show up on Tuesday at 5:30pm local time and gather in front of the store holding signs or phones, computers, and tablets open to ProtestSign.org (which turns your device into a handy protest sign!) You can also bring your own handmade sign too! Our basic message is: “FBI: Don’t break our iPhones!” and “Secure Phones Save Lives.” Check out some ideas for signs here.
2. Get some photos and videos of the group with your phones and signs up. Try some chants like “Don’t! Break! Our! Phones!” and “ Show some energy! Send your photos and videos IMMEDIATELY to team@fightforthefuture.org and we’ll help get them out to the press and on social media. The faster you can send photos the more likely we are to get press attention. You can also post photos on social media with the hashtag #DontBreakOurPhones
3. We’ll have an informational flyer soon that you can print and hand out to passers by or media who show up. Check back soon for a link to that and print some out before you come if you can!
4. Be energetic, but positive! We’re angry that the FBI is trying to make all of us less safe by undermining Apple’s security, but the goal of these events is to educate the public, lawmakers, and the press about WHY this is so dangerous. So let’s channel our anger into action!
WHAT’S GOING ON?
The FBI just got a judge to order Apple to build a software “backdoor” to help them hack into an iPhone. This is really dangerous because the FBI isn’t asking for access to just one phone — they’re asking Apple to make them a golden key that would let them unlock every iPhone.
The FBI has been wanting to do this for years, but now they’re exploiting the tragedy in San Bernardino, CA to push their agenda to weaken the security of all of our phones to enable more government surveillance.
Our basic safety and security is at stake! On Tuesday, February 23rd we will gather at Apple stores nationwide with two simple messages: “Don’t Break Our Phones!” and “Secure Phones Save Lives!”
We’re not protesting Apple, they are fighting back against this too. We’re protesting the government’s dangerous attempt to undermine our security by demanding a backdoor.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
Breaking the security features of our iPhones won’t just hurt our privacy, it puts all of our safety at risk. Once a backdoor is built, there’s no way to ensure it will only be used by the government and law enforcement, and it will eventually leak either by malicious hackers, foreign governments, terrorists, or thieves and stalkers to use our data against us.
What the FBI is doing is dangerous, but it’s also illegal. Apple has a right to offer customers secure devices that protect our most sensitive information. According to the ACLU, forcing Apple to hack their own customers is unconstitutional and will undermine our privacy and safety without improving national security.
So far, Apple is vowing to fight this unlawful and reckless demand by the government, but we need to show them that they’re not standing alone. Join us at one of these important events to stand up for everyone’s safety.
On Feb 23 OpenOakland invites you to come and learn how technology can empower communities, and how you can use tech to get more civic too!
Technology plays a vital role in connecting people and their government- Connecting Oakland is an interactive event where you will learn about how Oaklanders have used tech to:
- make city hall more accessible,
- to improve transparency; and
- promote civic engagement.
You’ll see first hand how an app is built in Oakland- from an initial idea, to a concept, to the data scraping to app design. Built in Oakland, for Oaklanders!
We’ll also host a design session to help you work on an app or technology project- to prepare for the next hackathon or to work with OpenOakland’s volunteers through the year. We’ll also have speakers from the City of Oakland showing us how to engage with them and influence decisions.
We’ll also be joined by some of Kamala Harris’s team (our Attorney General) to show us their new data app that shares data on police uses of force- Open Justice.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Presented by
Join us to fight for a livable wage for all Bay Area workers! We collaborate in principled reflection and action on what the Bay Area livable wage would be and where we are at on the right to a livable wage.
The Oakland Livable Wage Assembly builds Community and Power among those who seek higher wages and better work life conditions for area workers.
Our work together encompasses:
(1) The concerns of precarious, care and contingent workers,
(2) Campaigns to improve wages for low wage workers, and
(3) Efforts by unionized workers and unions to improve wages and quality of work life.
We share stories and information in an egalitarian and participatory way to build relationships and build the movement.
Oakland Livable Wage Assembly meets every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:00 PM at the SEIU Local 1000 Union Hall, 436 14th Street #200, Oakland, CA
Please love and support one another ~ We have a duty to fight ~ We have a duty to win!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1568668586707336/
Join Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition to
END SLEEP DEPRIVATION TORTURE IN PELICAN BAY SECURITY HOUSING UNITS/SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Solitary Man
Solo Performance by Charlie Hinton
After the performance, we will discuss how and why the men in Pelican Bay SHU have been continuously deprived of sleep since Aug 2, 2015.
SLEEP DEPRIVATION
IS TORTURE
No more torture in our name! prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com
Facebook: Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
Meeting to plan for March 1 activities
Alex Nieto and Amilcar Perez-Lopez were City College students when they were murdered by the SFPD, and Mario Woods went to Balboa High School: it could have been you! They are from the same communities being marginalized and evicted from San Francisco by gentrification, and from City College through downsizing and push-out policies.
March 1st, WALK OUT, shout out for the opening of Alex’s trial
8AM:Ceremony at court, 450 Golden Gate Ave, SF 9AM: Assemble at City College Ocean Campus Ram Plaza,
and City College Mission Campus, 21st and Valencia. 10AM: Rally at Court, 450 Golden Gate Ave. 11AM:March.
Then attend trial throughout.
In loving memory of A.J.Trasviña, 1988-2009 ; Labor Donated
Save City College Coalition, the
We will teach simple and easy guided meditation and breathing techniques to let go of stress and trauma, let your hair down, and celebrate!We believe that love is the universal language. We also believe that love is the universal cure to heal what ails societies worldwide. These meditation happy hours are our love offering to the community and are the result of a beautiful new & evolving partnership with Neelam Patil from The Art of Living.
Neelam has been meditating for the past 16 years and a student of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, the founder of the Art of Living Foundation, and an internationally renowned humanitaian and spiritual teacher. Neelam has done over 30 silent meditation retreats and daily seeks to live a life filled with knowledge, love, and service. She has taught trauma relief programs to inner city youth in high schools across the U.S. and abroad.
Neelam also teaches healthy cooking classes and caters out of Bliss Belly Kitchen, and currently she is working on an internet based TV show called Bliss Belly Cooking Show.
Special Showing
Occupy The Farm Film
In Solidarity With
The Indigenous Land Access Committee
The Story of Community Efforts to Save
Sacred Ohlone Land for Agriculture
and Community Resilience
Dinner at 6 p.m.
With greens from the UC Gill Tract Community Farm
Film at 7 p.m.
After the film, a conversation with Ohlone, Indigenous
and Community People Involved with this Struggle and Todd Darling, Director, Occupy The Farm Film
Learn How You Can Join in the Struggle to Save the Land
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Based on the book by Naomi Orestes and Erik M. Conway, this documentary lifts the curtain on pundits-for-hire paid by large corporations to cast doubt on scientific studies and spread confusion about a range of public threats, from toxic chemicals to climate change. The film explores the illusions created by these corporations in order distract the public from the harm their products create.
Pictured: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. Beginning in the late 1970s Exxon conducted climate research and then, without revealing what it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial and manufactured doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.
Homes Not Jails is a consensus-based collective of squatters and squat supporters who believe housing is a human right. Our goal is to open as much vacant housing as possible and to keep it open as long as possible. HNJ is a place to organize mutual aid among squatters and squat supporters and housing rights advocates in the bay. We actively fight to make our space inclusive and safe for everybody and combat oppression in all forms.
The case is moving into pretrial and court support is more important than ever. Please come support Janye and show the courts that we stand with him.
Antirepression Crew will be doing Coffee not Cops outside Rene C. Davidson starting at 8:30.
We encourage all Oakland residents to attend the weekly No Coal in Oakland meeting.
Up until its February 16th meeting, the position of a majority of Oakland City Council members on permitting coal shipment from the city’s port may have been in doubt. Even now the proposal remains on the table. But at that meeting, council members took concrete steps toward banning coal exports once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Libby Schaff, local clergy, State Senator Loni Hancock, and community activists, the Council has signaled its intention to enact an outright ban on coal exports. In fact, it passed a moratorium on the issuance of any permits for the terminal until the question has been resolved. Read details on the latest developmemts here.
(And for more background, see A Coaltastrophe Threatens Oakland on this website.)
The demand for justice is happening and needs you!
Be there at 5AM tomorrow (Friday) morning to help defend homeless people and their belongings:https://t.co/cy7zZBKJvM
— AntiDisplacementCoup (@AsterZephyrIsis) February 26, 2016
We’ll begin with a vigil at the site of his shooting (Folsom btw 24th and 25th), and then march to Mission Police Station. Afterwards, a free community dinner at St. John’s at 15th and Julian (between Valencia and Mission).
FRIDAY, 5pm, #SanFrancisco: Justice for Amilcar Perez Lopez https://t.co/bxDQIj3cjU #justice4amilcar pic.twitter.com/5aRoAzBApv
— Indybay (@Indybay) February 24, 2016
Members of the Historic Original Black Panthers of Oakland, Ericka Huggins, Tarika Lewis, Clarence Thomas, and David Hilliard will join various National and Local families victimized by Police Terrorism to inspire, pass on wisdom, experience, and discuss Policing in the 21st Century, Theme “Where do we go from Here”. “If you want to hear the truth, you must let the suffering speak”. It is this truth that has fueled the Movement for Justice across the United States. These families will share their faith, strength and hope, while listening, learning, and being inspired by these revolutionaries.
There will be two panels, one mothers’ panel moderated by Wanda Johnson, the mother of Oscar Grant, and one mens’ panel moderated by Davey D, KPFA radio host and Hip-Hop artist.
All will have an opportunity to meet and embrace these chosen families that have taken their tragedy to move the movement toward Justice. Join us as we welcome them in Oakland for the Oscar Grant Legacy Weekend Birthday Celebration.
This free event is open to the Public.